Home Motherhood will make you a morning person.

[TravelingGal]

OK, I heard this so often when I was pregnant that I half believed it would be true. But deep inside, I know that I''m a lazy sloth and it would not happen.

2 years later, I am still NOT a morning person. I HATE getting up in the morning person. So this definitely was not the case for me.

The only thing that did happen is that my internal clock automatically wakes me up at the same exact time every morning. I don''t need an alarm anymore. Being half deaf, I used to need a shrieking alarm to wake me up. Now at 7:25 am every morning (yes, I realize this isn''t THAT early) my eyes literally pop open.

It''s also tough to sleep in like I used to...I can do it, but feel guilty. But one thing I will say is that my mornings (once I''m awake) are much happier because kids just seem to LOVE morning and it''s a bit contagious.

Anyway, did you become more of a morning person since you had your kid?

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

No real change here.

I wake at around 7 when Amelia wakes. I turn over, switch off the baby monitor and go back to sleep.

DH is the early morning person in our house. Anything that goes on before 8.30 (9.30 on the weekends) is all his. I can barely sit upright before 7. I'm no longer allowed to make breakfast on weekdays, because he doesn't trust me with the kettle, toaster or stove. Or anything sharp.


ETA I felt guilty at first, but hey - I got over it.

DH loves his morning time with the girl. They have a getting dressed, cleaning teeth and eating breakfast ritual that cannot be messed with...

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Oh, and I will say that Amelia is a grumpy little spud first thing in the morming too. Which begs the question why the heck do you wake up so early if you''re rather be sleeping?!

 

[janinegirly]

I was also a sloth. NOT a morning person. I am most productive after the sun goes down. I am now a morning person in the sense I am awake every morning at 7am, even weekends. However I can't say I'm a morning person because I'm not happy to be awake and def not at my best! I will say that I need less sleep as a mother..I just manage. Even when C sleeps without a peep I will wake up and look (to see if covers are still on,etc.). When she isn't awake at 7am, DH and I hover...more DH than me though!

 

[Mara]

Well we are only 9 weeks in but I am still not a morning person as in ... either being up early OR wanting to be up early. I actually don''t mind that J gets up for his feed at 6am or 7am because I can feed him and go back to sleep for 2 more hours.

Of course this won''t work once I go back to work but I hope we don''t have one of those kids who gets up at 6am and needs to be entertained. I am already researching how for him to entertain himself in his crib once he is old enough to sit up...and how to get him to stay in his room until a certain hour (aka til a certain song comes on the player or the clock has a 7 or 8 in front of it) when he''s older.

Some of our friends have a kid who comes into their room at 6am and won''t be soothed or put back or anything, Mom and Dad MUST get up to play or start the day. I was horrified.

 

[somethingshiny]

JT is 4 and I''m still not a morning person. He''s usually up at 7:15 so I automatically wake up then, too. Like Tgal says, not really early, but definitely earlier than I''d get up on my own!

JT is not a morning person either. He wakes up (generally down to his underpants) wraps a blanket around himself and comes into our room. We come into the living room and he lounges for at least 30 minutes before he''ll even attempt breakfast. I have no idea how we''re going to handle school in a couple years!

 

[Sha]

Interesting question. I''m not a morning person either, although the few times I''ve gotten up early have been really nice. It''s great to feel that fresh morning air and see the dawning sun.....aahhhhh.... Anywhow, I digress....I''m much more energized in the afternoon. Before I had my daughter, I used to get up at 8 am to get to work for 9 am. Now, I have to get up at 6:30 am just to get everything done before heading to work. I was reflecting the other day on the fact that I have to get up so early now, against my wishes. No more late mornings.....

I don''t know if it''ll turn me into a morning person or not...it''s left to be seen!

I am a lot earlier for work now, though...which is a good thing.

 

[Shoopy]

I am a total morning person now!

I have a girl friend that I met in grad school who was a morning person. She''d wake up at 5:30am to go for a run and do chores before our SATURDAY morning class at 8am. She was crazy. She knew I hated waking up so she would have coffee waiting for me when I got to school.

It was also impossible to make morning plans with me. I didn''t function properly until after 11am.

Now I''m up at 7am every day. Even on days when FI takes care of Sophia so that I can sleep in, I''m usually on my phone or watching TV for 30mins before I can fall back to sleep.

I much prefer being a morning person to be honest. I spent so much time doing absolutely nothing on the weekends. Now I do stuff. The first time I put on FB that I was awake doing chores that same friend called me to ask if it was snowing in FL lol

Another change sort of similar: before DD I had a hard time falling asleep at night. I was never someone who could lay my head on a pillow and fall asleep immediately. Now I think I''m asleep mid-air lol! I was also a really heavy sleeper and am now a light sleeper.

 

[Puppmom]

TGal, this is an interesting topic. I’m pregnant and due in August. My brother and SIL just had their first and were saying that it really works out that my brother is a night person and SIL is a morning person. Now that my nephew will sleep for 6 hours, they’re both able to get a decent night’s sleep. My brother does the last feeding right before he goes to bed and SIL has already been asleep for an hour or two, and SIL *returns the favor* in the morning.

This got DH and me talking and we realized that I’m neither a night person OR a morning person.

Uh-oh! To really function, I need to be in bed by 10 and sleep until 6 or 7. I guess I’ve got some adjusting to do! I''m thinking it''s not going to fly that I just take care of mid-day care giving.

 

[Sabine]

I used to be so productive in the mornings. I''d get up and exercise and shower right away on weekends and then do all my grading/planning so that I could have it out of the way and lay around and enjoy the rest of the weekend. I woke up 20 minutes earlier than I had to on the weekdays because I liked getting to work early and having quiet time before the kids came in.

I''ve had to become more lax in the mornings since ds. He wakes up EARLY (5:15 some days, 5:45 other days, 6:20 on the wonderful days), and I can honestly say that I really hate getting up any earlier than 6. I still exercise in the morning, but then he eats breakfast and I have to get him ready and play with him for a while before I can shower and get myself ready. I really hate if I have something scheduled for early mornings because I feel like our routine takes so long.

Ds is happiest in the morning though, so I do enjoy playing with him most at these times.

 

[lili]

Don''t know if it makes me a morning person, but I do get up alot earlier pre-kid.
I don''t have the luxury to sleep in past 8 am nowadays.

 

[rockpaperscissors67]

Having kids hasn''t made me a morning person. I just have to get up early each day. I do so grudgingly. Everyone in my family knows that you don''t mess with me between wake up and first sip of coffee. Even our 9 week old son will sleep past the time I get up and wait to start crying for his breakfast until about 20 minutes after I''ve gotten out of bed.

 

[Pandora II]

I am so not a morning person - fortunately it seems that Daisy isn''t either.

Today she woke up at 8.50am, some days it''s 10.00am and only before 8.00am if DH wakes her up with the alarm clock.

I''m most productive in the evenings, and probably get more hours in a day than many morning people (since I was forced to get up for work etc) but I think morning people are always seen as less lazy, more productive etc

 

[phoenixgirl]

I think Claire is still too young (5.5 months) for me to really know what motherhood has done to my biorhythms, but I do know that having kids never turned my mother into a morning person, and now my siblings and I are all night people. My mom always signed us up for p.m. kindergarten so she could sleep until 9.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I hate getting up but I know what you mean. I have trouble sleeping past 8:30 when I used to be able to sleep all day if I wanted to. On days where she spends the night at my ILs I force myself to stay in bed until 9:30 even if that means reading or watching TV..

 

[Kaleigh]

Hmmmm. Well was never a morning person. Had kids and then had to be a morning person.. But now that they are out of the house??

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I really love it!!!

Will I miss the days of waking up cranky kids?? Look no matter how much sleep a kid gets, they wake up cranky.... In my case anyways.. They didn't jump out of bed and go yay!! School... They liked sleeping in, but even with earlier bed times, they still didn't love waking up.


Then you do breakfast, have to gather up the last minute homeowork they forgot to put in their school bags...

Oh and don't forget that permission slip you were supposed to sign, but they give it to you as you head out to the car.


It's funny how it plays out. Ebb and flow sort of thing.

 

[Burk]

I am sooo not a morning person. I''ve been forced to get up earlier post kids but I do it with a bad attitude!

I do not like the morning. Never have and probably never will.

 

[snlee]

I''ve never been a morning person and I am still NOT a morning person! That said, I hardly ever sleep past 8am. I''ve learned to just sleep earlier, so I get more sleep in since I no longer have the luxury of sleeping in. Even if I tried, I don''t think I could sleep past 8:30ish. So I guess in some way I am more of a morning person but I still wouldn''t call myself a morning person.

 

[Dreamer_D]

If I was in a prison chain gang for a year, it would not suddenly make me love crushing rocks with a hammer once I was released.

So my answer is no.

No.

Did I say no?

I am so completely not a morning person. Now that Hunter is weaned I make Dh get up with him so I can sleep in until 8am. That is an early risew for me. I have basically guilted Dh into letting me sleep in for until HUnter is 18 months -- because I was up all night with him for the first 9 months

-- but it is not always easy. And nope, I love sleeping in. On weekend I sleep in until about 10am. It is awesome. DH is not a morning person, but since Hunter sleeps until 7am now it is not so bad as when he woke at like 5:30 for a while

Well, actually we think he wakes earlier but 7am is when Dh goes in to get him. DH also likes playing with him more so that helps.

 

[Dreamer_D]

Mara You know the trick for getting your kid to amuse themselves in the morning? You just don''t go in there

I learned this oh so complex method from TGal. We started stretching Hunter a while back, maybe when he was about 10 months old? First we would wait about 5 minutes and then 10, and then a little longer. For a loong while he woke at 5:30 or 6 but with the gradual approach he now amuses himself in there until 7am. I think a big part of it was stretching the time between wake up and the morning nurse/bottle. I think eating sets their biological clock. So by stretching the time until his morning drink, it stretched his time before waking up. I am not sure what time he actually wakes up, but I think it is anywhere between 6:15 and 7am. He just sings and plays with the 5 binkies we keep in his crib

. He rarely wakes crying and has not for a long time.

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Date: 4/7/2010 11:50:02 PM
Author: dreamer_d
If I was in a prison chain gang for a year, it would not suddenly make me love crushing rocks with a hammer once I was released.

So my answer is no.

No.

Did I say no?

I am so completely not a morning person. Now that Hunter is weaned I make Dh get up with him so I can sleep in until 8am. That is an early risew for me. I have basically guilted Dh into letting me sleep in for until HUnter is 18 months -- because I was up all night with him for the first 9 months

-- but it is not always easy. And nope, I love sleeping in. On weekend I sleep in until about 10am. It is awesome. DH is not a morning person, but since Hunter sleeps until 7am now it is not so bad as when he woke at like 5:30 for a while

Well, actually we think he wakes earlier but 7am is when Dh goes in to get him. DH also likes playing with him more so that helps.

I would rather crush rocks with a hammer than get up before 8am....

 

[PumpkinPie]

I don''t have kids, but I was a full-time nanny to an infant for a year - no difference at all! I HATE mornings